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Summary

A demon attacks the Charmed Ones with dream dust he stole from a Sandman, causing their nightmares to come to life, Phoebe dreams about someone trying to kill her, Piper dreams she has a secret and sexy love, Paige feels alone and Leo dreams about something happening to the baby. The sisters must defeat their worries in their dreams, before they are destroyed. Ultimately Phoebe learns that her mysterious attacker is herself, Paige is afraid of being alone due to her secret birth, and Piper's lover is actually Leo. Leo ends up feeling closer to the baby when he feels it kick. The demon shows up expecting to have their nightmares backing him up and is shocked to see that they're not. Piper, annoyed with him, simply blows him up.

Artifacts

Dream dust - Dust that causes good beings to dream. It is sprinkled in their eyes by Sandmen. When there is sprinkled too much dream dust in someone's eyes, the dreams of that person will come to life.

Piper comments the baby shower Paige is organizing is only a shower and not a 'coronation'. This echoes Phoebe's comment in "Brain Drain", who said that Piper was obsessing about their friend Wendy's baby shower, which she remarked was not a 'royal wedding'. Both scenes occurred in the kitchen and were references to the amount of food being prepared.

This is the first and only time that only three crystals were used to create a Crystal Cage. Usually the cages are made with five or six crystals.

Cultural References

The title is partly based on "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and the Papas, and partly on the Sandman (hence "Sand" instead of "San").

Glitches

When Phoebe gets healed by Leo up in the attic, the wound shown being healed is clearly from another shot.

At the scene where the sisters are going to sleep to enter their dreams, Phoebe opens the conservatory door and clearly closes it again. Yet, when the camera shows Leo putting the Sandman's sand on them, the door is open.

Piper's pregnant belly disappears. Just after the baby is transferred back to Piper after Leo feels it kick, Piper's pregnant belly bump swells massively. Seconds later when she turns towards the Tracer demon her pregnant belly is missing completely (her abdomen is flat) and Leo has the belly again. When Piper turns back after blowing up the Tracer, she has the belly again.

When the masks in Phoebe's dream disappear it is clearly shown that Alyssa's head is taller than the masked man's.

Paige's final line of dialogue in this episode - "I just hope we can stay awake long enough to enjoy it" - has clearly been edited in.